[Bug 708174] Re: Upgrade to latest php 5.3 version

[Ondřej Surý]

The reason number one is that's against general policy to upgrade
versions in stable releases. (That's same for Ubuntu, Debian and number
of other distributions).

The reason number two is that the minor releases of php doesn't only
include security fixes (check the upstream changelog or even svn log),
but also new features, and while it got better in latter years it's
still not feasible to just pull new upstream releases into stable
releases. The new php version may require new version of some library,
etc. and vice versa some somftware depending on php could stop working
on newer php versions. It's not that uncommon (check mediawiki f.e.)

** Changed in: php5 (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  Upgrade to latest php 5.3 version